Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-08-06
ARRIVALS BY THE STEAMERS.


This weeks steamers have brought in q bevy Of
Siamese royalties. Baron Sell1ere and Eng. Gil
more. For placidity Of demeanor, general gentle
ness and innate nobility Of soul Gilmore rather
heads the list. Particularly as TO SOUL 1t Is some
what muggy and frayed, but IL Is there. Gil
more's return nils long and yawping want in the
Sunday press No New York paper is complete
on the Lords Day without story about Ed. Gil
more and he turns up with undertaking regularity.
He never seeks notor1ety, but he Is one of TIE
figures Of the town, and as shrewd in Wall street
matters as In the theatrical world. His character
IS admirably outlined In story that has been
told or him for many years. Young Gilmore
then lad OF tender yearsMwas starting out fol
HIS mother took him aside just before his de-
parture and said:
edward, be Very careful that those bad wicked
New Ork men don't steal every thing you've got.r
"DOn't be alarmed, mother" said the boy with
the air OF touching and complete abnegation
which has characterized him ever since. "Ill
Worry along; but you might keep your eye on the
papers ana see what happens TO the pockets Of the
He removed doorkeeper from his theater Just
before he sailed. The man had been there thirty
one years.
"He was a good doorkeeper," Gilmore said in a
reminiscent way one night, "but he had one defect
In an Otherwise nawiesS characterize had an IN
vincibe rePuguaDce TO allowing any one TO go into
the Lheater- IL wrung his heart every time a man
went In. Finally he kept me out. talked with
him and found that IL was because wasn't q
member OF Tammany Hall. Hadn't time TO Join
Temmany that night and so promoted the door
Keeper on the spot and thus effected an entrance
Into my own theater."
sIAMEsE PRINCES AND ENGLISH SERVANTS.
The Siamese princes are tremendous swells.
They are the most amiable little men in the world.
Their round eyes and chubby faces beam with
continual good nature, and they have even i'm
parted some OF their JOllity to their platoon or
English Wallets Englishmen are now accepted
every where as the best servants In the world.
They are the personal attendants OF French
women OF high rank, Russian royalty, japanese,
eiamese and Chinese grandees, New York Anglo.
maniacS. Brazilian bullion kiugr, nd had
From every corner OF the world they are eagerly
cried FOR. have been wondering for half an hour
more whether this Is another Illustration OF the
superiority OF the English people or something
quite the reverse
HE WANTED TO DICTATE.
Baron Selliere Is indeed eccentric Apparently
he has no end OF money. He had less manners on
one occasion. was at the Hotel Brunswick. and
had Just come down stairs with my stenographer
Glanced 10 think OF business letter Just as the
man was going away, and detained him a mo-
corner of the reading room, and was talking i'm
a low voice, when chair was overturned. there
was wild wh1rl, and the baron-with whom /
had no personal acquaintance-rushed up and
asked excitedly:
What are you doing?'
"Dictatlng."
"NO!-
yes
81 want TO dictate"
lection"
''But TO him, 1abbing frantically at the stenog-
rapher.
As had about finished loaned the man to him,
and be dictated an acceptance OF an invitation To
dinner with the emphasis and roar OF q crack ira
gedian. Then he said:
Whom do pay?"
'.NO one"
He bowed, was profuse In his thanks, and with
ure" with the wearicd air OF q man who had per-
Iorined great mental feat In the very nick OF
.iine. Inc stenographer forgot TO write the note
OUT until three days had passed, but the baron
vas not Ia the least disturbed by the delay though
Inc Gunner had meanwhile been eaten.
BLAKELY HALL.